Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) TAC Advisory Board

Tina is a strategist, thought leader and ecosystem builder. She is a partner in Technology and Transformation at Deloitte where she serves as the lead client service partner and lead business partner across industries and has particular expertise in cybersecurity strategy. She also serves as the Canadian representative to the Global Women in Cyber Advisory. She is the former Minister of Advanced Education, the former Minister of Innovation Saskatchewan and the former minister responsible for the Status of Women. She was first elected in 2016 and in her time in government was the author of many key initiatives including the Saskatchewan Technology StartUp Incentive, the most aggressive angel investment tax credit in Western Canada, which has played a key role in making Saskatoon the second fastest growing tech hub in Canada. She also authored the Ag-Tech Growth Fund to help boost Saskatchewan’s niche market for agricultural tech companies.

In Advanced Education, she was the vice-chair of the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) which included the Ministers of Advanced Education and K-12 for all of the federal/provincial and territories. As part of this, Saskatchewan lead the international education strategy. She also represented Canada at both the G20’s first ever employment and education talks in Argentina in 2018 and at UNESCO’s 40th General Conference on the future of work in Paris in 2019. Also in 2019 she worked with Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan to launch Canada’s first Women’s Economic Advisory Committee focused on recommendations to help women led businesses in Saskatchewan scale and add to the province’s ambitious 100,000 jobs growth plan goals.

Tina serves on the advisory for Sask Polytech’s Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) and also on the Capital Campaign for the Regina YWCA’s Centre for Women and Families.

Joe is a technology, capital raising, and tax partner with a particular focus on high growth technology startups, IT contracting for managing digital transformation, and tax structuring for private enterprises and professionals. He has assisted hundreds of prairie technology, innovation, and scientific startups. He works with founders throughout the startup life cycle, from the very early ideation stage, through formation, to growth, scale, and exit. Joe brings a unique approach to his advice having co-founded a legaltech start-up that participated in Saskatchewan’s first business accelerator program.

Joe also serves as the lawyer-in-residence for Co.Labs (a technology incubator in Saskatoon), the lawyer-in-residence for Cultivator (a technology incubator in Regina), and a legal coach for Opus (a technology incubator operated by the University of Saskatchewan). He is the founder and chair of the firm’s Technology and High Growth Startups Practice Group. He presents to groups in the start-up ecosystem on legal issues such as formation, tax matters, employee incentive planning, privacy and cybersecurity, securing government funding, and raising capital.

Kathlene is currently the principal business performance or chief of staff for Karina Gistelinck, BHP's potash asset president. Kathlene has been with BHP for three years and prior to her current role she lead the BHP Potash Innovation team with the scope of future flowsheet development, decarbonization technology and strategy, and potash growth study support. Prior to BHP, Kathlene worked for Mosaic across all Saskatchewan sites. She held various roles such as research engineer, process engineering lead, and production superintendent. She has had the fortune of participating in projects spanning from product development to large scale expansions. She has a passion for social value and technology development.

Kathlene was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Chemical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in 2008 and obtained a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 2011. She is currently pursuing an EMBA at Queen’s University Smith School of Business with an expected graduation in June 2026.

Danya Kordan is the director responsible for research institutes and clusters at Innovation Saskatchewan. Within that role, she provides leadership for the agency and provincial government as it relates to matters affecting innovation at the funded research institutes. This also involves participation in senior official committees involving other provincial and federal jurisdictions. Danya focuses on nurturing an environment that supports the research community to ensure Saskatchewan research and commercialization interests are maximized.

Danya has worked in economic development for the province of Saskatchewan for the past 30 years. For many of those years she was sector manager responsible for the growth of the Life Sciences Sector. Danya is currently a board member for the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.

Danya holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Justin is passionate about using technology to solve problems and improve results but only when it makes sense. He has spent over 15 years in the technology industry the majority being with Nutrien both working at both operating site and corporate offices. Starting as a system administrator and working through various roles handling both hardware and software he has been involved in all areas of IT.

Currently he is the director of NPK Digital Transformation at Nutrien where he is accountable for collaboratively defining, delivering, and proving value of transformative digital solutions for Nutrien's wholesale operations - nitrogen (N), phosphate (P) and potash (K) across North America. Justin's team focuses on applying digital solutions with measurable impacts to support Nutrien’s goals of safe, reliable production as Nutrien strives to feed the future. Areas of focus include providing ubiquitous wireless coverage (primarily through P-LTE), Enabling the connected worker with a focus on the right information at the right time to the right person, digitization of metrics and processes to increase the speed and quality of information and the decisions they help to make, and finally his team is reasonable for delivering converged technology solutions where, in partnership with many groups, they deliver solutions that blend the line between IT and OT to help improve our operations through fields like computer vision, geospatial analysis, and robotics.